Posted on 10/13/2006 3:46:10 PM PDT by Shermy
the mysterious "JLo" letter as I recall.
That's incorrect. Two different military labs found the same thing independently, stated it, and put the names of their supervisors onto the public reports of the strain/purity/weaponization.
Those aren't errors, and no lab, certainly not some byline buried deep in a bungled FBI report, has the credibility to challenge the two military labs' analysis.
You are right that it takes a "bolus" of spores to contract an infection under normal conditions. You just about have to open the bottle and pour it into a sore!!!
However, they did feel that perhaps 3 spores into the lungs would cause an infection. Our bodies are counting on our nose hairs and mucus to catch them before the lungs.
However, I think you are thinking of smallpox as being one of the first vaccines........correct me if I am wrong.
Smallpox to cowpox
No. He may have spent the tainted money in Florida. He may have gotten infected by using the tainted money to snort cocaine at his keyboard.
Plus, it takes a lot of spores to get infected.
It all comes back to the 2 degrees of separation. Bob Stevens worked in the AMI building where the AMI exec's wife was the landlord for 2 of the 9/11 terrorists.
That's the anthrax connection between victim and Osama.
Further, what you aren't being told is that human dna was recovered in the mailed letters. We already know that the anthrax perp(s) are or aren't Arab/Persian...the public just isn't being told which.
But the FBI knows...and the FBI is keeping silent on the human dna because it runs contrary to their public anthrax investigation so far.
I agree with your two degrees of separation.
We know that they are or aren't Arabs???????
Yes. We know if they are Arabs or if they are not Arabs.
Sadly, the public isn't being told the answer that was found in the anthrax letters dna.
This story says a "stray spore" was found on the keyboard.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2001-10-15-tracking-anthrax.htm
You nailed Ed Lake. He likes to spread false information that it was all just a big misunderstanding with the media. Of course you are correct. There are dozens of named Federal officials who stated silica was used as an additive.
The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) published a Newsletter in October 2002 (1 year after the attcks) stating that silica was a key additive of the powder sent to yourself. They used a technique of SEM/EDX to determine this. The persons responsible for this work were Florabel Mullick, Frank Johnson, Victor Kalasinsky and Marie Jenkins. They relate this finding here: http://www.afip.org/images/public/nl081002.pdf
Where is that scientific report showing all of the floors of the AMI building??? They showed the keyboard was loaded? It was a screening of the building.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/anthraxamibuilding.html
I think it was more than a stray spore.
Incorrect. In fact, no anthrax letter was **ever** found in the AMI building in Florida.
It's true that no letter was found, but traces of anthrax were found in post offices which indicate that the anthrax letter was postmarked on September 18, 2001, in Trenton, NJ, just like the other four media letters, and it was transported to Florida.
The letter was addressed to an obsolete address for The National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. It was then forwarded from Lantana to the AMI offices in Boca Raton. It was opened by Stephanie Dailey, whose job was to open letters for The National Enquirer. She's the only person besides Stevens and Blanco who tested positive for anthrax exposure.
There is no evidence of any kind that there was any other letter containing anthrax that went to anyplace in Florida.
Ed
That's incorrect. Two different military labs found the same thing independently, stated it, and put the names of their supervisors onto the public reports of the strain/purity/weaponization.
Which two labs were those?
AFIP (The Armed Forces Institutes of Pathology) detected silicon and oxygen in the anthrax and ASSUMED it was some kind of silica additive. But no one SAW any additives under a TEM or SEM. AFIP put their FALSE ASSUMPTIONS into a self-serving newsletter. It wasn't any kind of official report.
Ed
The CDC charts showing where anthrax spores were detected in the AMI building can be found on my site by clicking HERE.
Note that the third floor where Bob Stevens worked and where the J-Lo letter was opened is the least contaminated floor in the building.
The mailroom area where Stephanie Dailey opened the actual anthrax letter is the MOST contaminated area in the building.
The National Enquirer described exactly how and where the so-called "J-Lo letter" was opened. That article can be read by clicking HERE. They may have thought it was the anthrax letter, but the evidence says it wasn't. If the J-Lo letter had been loaded with anthrax, that entire area on the third floor would have been covered with anthrax, and the person who actually opened it -- Bobby Bender -- would have been contaminated, if not dead. He carried the OPEN letter around the third floor office showing it to people - including Bob Stevens.
Ed
Correct. That flat out lie causes me to doubt everything else in the article. Saddam and al Queda remains the joint suspects to me.
"Let me inject a tad of reason and common sense." This is going to make you very unpopular among the Shoot first and never ask questions crowd.
The significant issue with this anthrax was not "purity" but SIZE the spores were milled to the perfect size for inhilation. Like Baby Bear they had to be juuust right not too small not too big.
There were only a few labs capable of that kind of milling and of that few only Iraq had the motivation to do something like this.
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